They seem to be lenient in South Beach these days with overdue parking meters. On weekends, you can't get a table at any restaurant on Ocean Drive or Lincoln Road they are packed with people. The City of Miami Beach knows this and they would rather have happy customers than upset people with parking tickets who will not return. So as a result, the restaurants and stores do a bang up business.
A friend's meter was expired for almost two hours on Ocean Drive last Saturday, yet her car was not ticketed.
In the Grove, people have seen parking attendants counting the minutes until tickets expire, the Parking Authority ticket writers have literally been seen standing over cars looking at their watches, counting the minutes. This was the scene Sunday at 6:30 pm, wonder how many of the ticketed people will return to Monty's next week.
Do they know there is a grace period? Do they know they are getting out of hand now?
The City of Miami just hired many new employees while other cities are suffering and Miami has a hiring freeze. Coincidence? I wonder. Even Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is quoted as saying, "It goes against common sense." He means the hirings, not the parking authority overzealous ticket writers. We mean both, the ticket jockeys and the hirings.
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